Nick Proferes
@profprof.bsky.social
Studies tech, discourse, and how sometimes things mean other things. Opinions are my own. Grading while listening to death metal enthusiast.
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Nick Proferes
@profprof.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Local platformized utopias? corporate discourse, community groups, and volunteer moderation on Facebook, Reddit, and NextDoor
journals.sagepub.com
New OA pub day! Given the dwindling of local newspapers, folks are turning to social media. Platforms are discursively constructing local community groups as a new kind of hub. But local volunteer mods are the ones who are charged to realize these visions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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In the midst of massive anti-regime protests, Iran’s govt has completely disconnected the country from the global Internet. www.kentik.com/analysis/ira...
Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet
Move comes as protest movement grows more widespread In response to a growing anti-government protest movement, the government of Iran has…
www.kentik.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
In the midst of massive anti-regime protests, Iran’s govt has completely disconnected the country from the global Internet. www.kentik.com/analysis/ira...
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The CFP for #AoIR2025 in Mexico City is now posted. The theme is "Regeneration(s)". Submissions are due March 1.
aoir.org/aoir2026/aoi...
aoir.org/aoir2026/aoi...
January 8, 2026 at 3:07 AM
The CFP for #AoIR2025 in Mexico City is now posted. The theme is "Regeneration(s)". Submissions are due March 1.
aoir.org/aoir2026/aoi...
aoir.org/aoir2026/aoi...
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Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
January 6, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public.
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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Our third @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Research Ethics Committee column is live! With @cfiesler.bsky.social and @vitak.bsky.social, we examine how ethics intersects with SIGCHI peer review, and how to better embed it into community practice.
doi.org/10.1145/3778...
doi.org/10.1145/3778...
Ethics in Review: When Researcher Responsibility Meets Peer Review | Voices of SIGCHI
Research ethics ideally begins long before we open Overleaf and start preparing a
manuscript for submission. Ethical decisions should guide study design, data collection,
and the analysis of results, ...
doi.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our third @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Research Ethics Committee column is live! With @cfiesler.bsky.social and @vitak.bsky.social, we examine how ethics intersects with SIGCHI peer review, and how to better embed it into community practice.
doi.org/10.1145/3778...
doi.org/10.1145/3778...
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Once again.
It still matters if things are real
In the comments, people note that it’s AI and the poster responds that he just doesn’t care.
That’s an easy block.
That’s an easy block.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Once again.
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"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.
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Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city.
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor, Northeastern University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor, Northeastern University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city.
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
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did it in four words hemmingway
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
did it in four words hemmingway
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Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
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I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
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i keep reading "it's giving tuesday" and reading it the wrong way.
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
i keep reading "it's giving tuesday" and reading it the wrong way.
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And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”
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Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
![Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made.
— Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreiajgzfaixqslnz2oftyxfcz2htgwbfisxfeyoospb5o6f3arqwfgu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
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We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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philjobs.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky
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Worth reading:
"The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres
www.theatlantic.com/...
#GenerativeAI
"The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres
www.theatlantic.com/...
#GenerativeAI
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Worth reading:
"The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres
www.theatlantic.com/...
#GenerativeAI
"The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres
www.theatlantic.com/...
#GenerativeAI
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NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
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If you donate to your local food bank remember your employer might match your donations and double them. Every month I send $50 and they get $100
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you donate to your local food bank remember your employer might match your donations and double them. Every month I send $50 and they get $100
So baseball again in a few hours, right?
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
So baseball again in a few hours, right?
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Do...do stadiums serve breakfast?
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Do...do stadiums serve breakfast?
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googling 'how do you win baseball'
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
googling 'how do you win baseball'
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lol game 4 is later today
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
lol game 4 is later today
Sisyphus would love this game.
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Sisyphus would love this game.